Slip noose fishing leader



Feb. i955 A. WERNER SLIP NoosE FISHING LEADER INVENTOR.

/4/7 mai arn ey Filed Feb. l, 1954 United States Patent() SLIP NOOSEFISHING LEADER Albert Werner, Walnut Creek, Calif.

Application February 1, 1954, Serial No. 407,203

7 Claims. (Cl. 43-44.82)

This invention relates to improvements in methods of fishing, andchiefly concerns the catching of nibblers, which by use of conventionalmethods are seldom caught, and further concerns the effective hooking ofa striking sh by employing the self-setting operation of a pair ofhooks.

It is common in fishing practice to use a leader or snell of definitelength attached at its opposite ends directly to the hook and to theline. With this arrangement, there is a positive stop when a fishattempts to make away with the bait, consequently the fish beingfrightened, lets go of the bait, and usually Will not return to it. Insome cases, the fish line is made free to slip relative to the sinker,but this provides absolutely free movement of the hook, and is thereforeineffective, because slight resistance is essential to cause the fish tosnag itself when it attempts to make away with the bait.

I have found that the above disadvantages may be overcome by forming thesnell or leader into a play-out loop, with the snell or leaderlengthening out under slight frictional resistance when a fish tugs atthe bait, so as not to alarm the fish. I have further found that thebest Way of accomplishing the desired results is to use two snelledhooks of different sizes having loops formed at one end, fix the loopedend of the snell having the smaller hook thereon to the line or leader,with the hook applied through a small portion at the upper end of thebait, and then pass both snells through a resilient or flexible tubularmember, withthe loop of the snell of the larger hook inserted in thelower end of the tubular member, thus forming a playout loop, thetubular member providing the required frictional resistance throughwhich the larger hook can be pulled out relative to the end of the line.

With this arrangement, the fish may be caught by either of the two hooksinitially, and if the larger hook is nibbled, the small hook will pullfree of the small portion at the upper end of the bait, and with furthernibbling and tugging, the larger hook will play out through thelengthening of its snell with consequent retraction of the play-outloop, and thus, with the fish gaining confidence, it suddenly tries tomake away with the bait and thus becomes caught very effectively. Forthe foregoing reasons, the catch is greatly increased by my invention.

With this arrangement, the fish may be caught by either or both of thehooks. If the fish strikes one hook effectively, it may be caught bythat hook, or if it grabs the bait over both hooks, then tries to makeaway with the bait, the one hook will remain substantially stationaryrelative to its point of attachment to the line while the other hookwill pay out with the fish and thus both hooks come into action and thuseffectively set in different points in the mouth of the fish.

The objects and advantages of the invention are as follows:

First, to provide a means of connecting a fish hook to a fishing line inwhich the hook has relatively slight resistance to a nibbling orstriking fish as compared to the resistance at the point of attachmentto the line.

Second, to provide a leader for a fishing line in which a slip noose isformed in the leader, in which the leader is looped to provide a setlength substantially half its full length and so held under slightresistance to a nibbling fish and which will be lengthened tosubstantially full length through ordinary pull by a nibbling fish onice the leader to cause the hook to set in the mouth of the fish whenthat position is reached.

Third, to provide a leader as outlined which eliminates the pull of theline and sinker while a fish is nibbling thereby causing the fish tobelieve the bait to be practically free and thus causing the fish todash with the bait and thus become hooked either by the single hook orby a combination of the slip hook and a second hook on a nonlengtheningleader to effectively set the hooks in the mouth of the fish.

Fourth, to provide a leader with a slip noose in conjunction with afriction sleeve through which the leader is threaded and in which theterminal loop is frictionally anchored, and to provide a second leaderthreaded through the same sleeve and retained under slight frictionalresistance, to provide for setting of two hooks in the mouth of a fish,or to provide for substantially doubling the lenglth of the connectionbetween the fish line and the one In describing the invention referencewill be had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates in elevation the preferred embodiment showing thefirst stage of assembly.

Fig. 2 shows the completely assembled embodiment ready for use.

Fig. 3 illustrates the invention baited ready for fishing.

Fig'. 4 is an enlarged vertical section through the friction sleevewhich controls the feed of the snell of the larger hook.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section through another embodiment as applied to aleader.

This invention is an improvement over my copending application, SerialNumber 318,858, filed November 5, 1952, for Slip Noose Fishing Leader inthat two fishing leaders or snells are used and which can be arranged toprovide substantially twice the lengthening between one hook and thepoint of attachment to the line, or which may bearranged as aself-setting combination with one hook fixed relative to the line andthe other capable of lengthening under a pull by a fish, either toinstill confidence when the fish is nibbling or to cause the two hooksto set in different areas in the mouth of the fish.

The fishing tackle illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 includes two snelledhooks, the larger hook 11 having a snell l2 which terminates in a loop13, while the smaller hook 14 also has a similar snell 15 terminating ina line attaching loop 16 bymeans of which it is attached to a leader orfishing line 17.

The two loops 13 and 16 are first threaded through a short sleeve 18which may be formed of rubber or plastic of some resilient type such asa vinyl plastic, and then threaded through a longer sleeve 19 of thesame material as the shorter sleeve, following which, both of the hooksand the short sleeve 18 are threaded through the loop 13 of the snell 12which loop is then inserted into the lower end 20 of the longer sleeve19 as indicated at 21 in Fig. 4, which shows both snells passing throughthe loop 13 with the loop 13 being inserted into the sleeve, the sleevebeing of a size suitable to receive the two snells and the loop and knot22 under slight frictional resistance, the completed article appearingas illustrated in Fig. 2, the snell 12 having been formed into a largeloop 23.

With the loop 16 of the snell of the smaller hook 14 attached to theleader or fishing line 17, the bait 24 is baited on the larger hook 11,then with the smaller hook in opposed position as indicated in Fig. 3,this smaller hook is pierced through a small portion of the bait at theupper end, just enough to maintain the relative positions of the twohooks. The short sleeve 18 is slid down close to the eye 25 of thesmaller hook, and the loop 23 is enlarged to its maximum, whereby thebottom 20 of the longer sleeve is positioned adjacent to the top of theshorter sleeve. As will be understood, the term snell applies equally tofishing leaders, since the same effect is obtained with leaders.

When a fish nibbles at the bait 24 it may be caught by either or both ofthe hooks. However, a slight jerk on the larger hook will cause thesmaller hook to be disengaged from the bait, and the fish can continuenibbling with the snell extending with slight resistance, and almostcertainly, the fish will then attempt to make away with the bait, thesnell drawing out until the loop has drawn close around the wall of thelarger sleeve, thus causing an ilnstant stop which causes the fish tohook itself eiect1ve y.

As shown in Fig. 5, a similar operation and eiect is obtained byomitting the smaller hook and smell and attaching the leader or line 30to the loop 28 of the larger hook after the play-out loop 29 has beenformed as shown, and with the loop 28 being drawn back into the sleevefor the snell and which embodiment is applicable to leaders or snells,and in which the snell 26 is threaded through the sleeve 27 from bottomto top, after which the line attaching loop 28 is threaded back throughthe bottom end and out through the top to form the play-out loop 29. Thefishline 30 is then attached to the line attaching loop 28, after whichthe loop 28 is drawn back into the sleeve to provide the necessaryfriction for suitable playout of the leader under slight resistance.

I claim:

1. Fishing tackle comprising a snelled sh hook having a loop formed atone end of the snell, and a resilient sleeve threaded on said snell, aportion of said snell forming a play-out loop about the side wall of thesleeve through insertion of the loop formed at said one end of the snellinto the lower end of the sleeve, said sleeve having an inside diameterof such size as to frictionally engage the portions of said snellpositioned therein to maintain the play-out loop of said snell underslight resistance against retraction.

2. Fishing tackle as defined in claim 1; a second snelled sh hook havinga line attaching loop formed at the terminal end of the snell, the endloops of the snells of both hooks being rst threaded through saidsleeve, and then both hooks are threaded through the end loop of saidtirst mentioned snell previous to insertion of the end loop into thelower end of the sleeve, and a fishing line attached to the lineattaching loop of the said second snelled fish hook.

3. Fishing tackle as dened in claim 2, a guide sleeve threaded onto saidsnells previous to the threading of the rst mentioned sleeve and beingpositioned adjacent to the eye of the hook of the second snelled hook tomaintain the two hooks in close relationship while ishing.

4. Fishing tackle as deiined in claim 3 in which the two hooks are ofdifferent sizes with the rst mentioned hook being the larger hook, andadapted to be baited, the smaller hook being adapted to be inserted in asmall portion of the upper end of the bait for release under slight pullon the rst mentioned hook by a fish.

5. A slip noose device for a fish hook comprising a leader, and a sleeveof relatively resilient material threaded onto said leader, said leaderhaving a terminal loop, the leader being formed into a loop over the topand about the side of said sleeve, said terminal loop being inserted inthe lower end of said sleeve, said sleeve having an inside diameter ofsuch size as to frictionally engage the portion of said leaderpositioned therein to retain said leader against relative movement underslight resistance.

6. Fishing tackle comprising two snelled hooks of different sizes, eachsnell terminating in an end loop, a first sleeve of relatively flexiblematerial threaded onto said snells, and a second sleeve of similarmaterial threaded onto said snells with both end loops extending fromthe upper end of the sleeve, both hooks being threaded through the endloop of the snell of the larger hook, the looped end of the snell of thelarger hook being inserted into the lower end of the second sleeve toform a play-out loop, the second sleeve having an inside surfacefrictionally retaining the portions of said snells positioned thereinfor restraining withdrawal of the snell of the larger hook under slightfrictional resistance.

7. Fishing tackle comprising two snelled hooks each snell having a hookat one end and a loop formed at the other end, and two friction sleeves,said snells being threaded through said friction sleeves, said hooks andone of said friction sleeves being threaded through the end loop on oneof said snells, with the other one of said end loops being adapted forattachment to a fishing line, the end loop of said one of said snellsbeing inserted within the other one of said friction sleeves, said otherone of said sleeves having an inside diameter of such size as tofrictionally engage the portions of said snells and said one of saidloops positioned therein, whereby one of said hooks is iXed relative tothe point of attachment to the line while the other one of said hooks isextefndalaleil for causing setting of the hooks in the mouth o a sReferences Cited in the ile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 676,962Payton June 25, 1901 1,438,476 Bley Dec. 12, 1922 1,863,125 Powell June14, 1932 2,572,616 Hansen Oct. 23, 1951 2,674,824 Werner Apr. 13, 1954

